title: Motor performance and handedness in children with developmental language disorder.
abstract: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is diagnosed when there is a failure of normal language development in a child with normal nonverbal intelligence. The discussion about additional or causal deficits is controversial. In this study a computer-based motor performance series with a tapping, aiming and pegboard movement task and an additional paper-pencil handedness test were applied to a group of children with DLD of the phonologic-syntactic subtype and with normal nonverbal intelligence to describe the additional motor problems. Furthermore we examined whether our DLD children showed a different handedness. Tapping and pegboard with both hands were significantly impaired in our DLD children. Overall our DLD children did not show a different handedness than the control group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Preis
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schittler
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Lenard
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013997:Time Factors